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  Proved innocent | Iraq | Guardian Unlimited
Now, tracked down 13 years after Bazoft's barbaric execution, Askar admits that he knew the 31-year-old reporter was innocent of the charge of espionage for which he was hanged - and claims Bazoft was murdered on the orders of Saddam Hussein himself.
Bazoft left London with a group of colleagues to join an Iraqi government-organised convoy to cover Kurdish elections and rebuilding after the Iran-Iraq war.
Bazoft was last seen during a half-hour visit by Robin Kealy, consul general at the British Embassy.
www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,,958298,00.html   (1988 words)

  
  Farzad Bazoft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Farzad Bazoft (May 22, 1958 – March 15, 1990) was an Iran-born British journalist working as a freelance reporter for The Observer.
He settled in the United Kingdom in the early 1980s and wrote a number of articles on the Middle East before being invited to Iraq to participate in a trip for journalists organized by the Iraqi government.
Bazoft's story triggered a general outrage of the West and contributed to international isolation of Saddam's regime.
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 [ more-details.be | Farzad Bazoft Resources ]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Farzad Bazoft (May 22, 1958 – March 15, 1990) was an Iran-born British journalist viable as a freelance newscaster for The Observer.
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Bazoft's clothesline triggered a habitual outrage of the West 'n contributed to worldly isolation of Saddam's regime.
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 Salam WorldWide
Farzad Bazoft was born in Iran and left that war-ravaged country in 1985 for Britain.
Later, Bazoft was imprisoned for an unspecified crime and when released was cultivated by his Mossad contact to spy for that agency.
Bazoft was permitted in Iraq to report on the rebuilding progress by Iraq after its war with Iran, but he had decided to investigate the cause of the explosion instead.
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 FARZAD BAZOFT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Farzad Bazoft было Иран-prinesenno1 32-year-old великобританской деятельностью journalist как freelance репортер для наблюдателя.
Редактор Donald Trelford наблюдателя сказал in response to более последние случаи: "Farzad Bazoft не будет шпионкой.
Перед их пробой, президент Саддам Юуссеин написал к великобританскому премьер-министру, Margaret thatcher, убеждая ее Farzad Bazoft и parish Daphne получил бы беспристрастня слушание дела.
www.faktoru.com /wiki/ru/fa/Farzad%20Bazoft.htm   (455 words)

  
 Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day: Remembering Farzad Bazoft
Bazoft, an eager freelancer, who was in Iraq to cover the upcoming elections in the Iraqi Kurdish community that Saddam was gassing to death, secretly visited the Qaqa site twice, where he collected soil samples.
In custody, Bazoft "confessed" to having spied for Israel, but it is generally agreed that his confession was completely involuntary.
Parish was sentenced to 15 years in prison; Bazoft was sentenced to death.
www.eamonn.com /2003/02/remembering_farzad_bazoft.htm   (588 words)

  
 CANOE Money: - Digging in the dirt
Bazoft was a freelance reporter of Iranian origin working for Britain's Observer newspaper.
Bazoft had thought that the explosion had to do with banned weapons and had asked his Iraqi government handlers to take him to the site.
When Bazoft tried to leave Iraq to have the soil samples tested, he was arrested, held in solitary confinement for a number of months and then appeared in front of TV cameras, drugged and probably tortured.
money.canoe.ca /Columnists/Sutton/2003/12/17/pf-289986.html   (574 words)

  
 Dáil Éireann - Volume 397 - 15 March, 1990 - Execution of Journalist — Statements.
Farzad Bazoft, a journalist with the Observer newspaper.
The execution by the Iraqi authorities of the journalist Farzad Bazoft is certainly the most final interference with a person's human rights that any state can engage in.
Bazoft was guilty as charged but there is strong evidence to suggest that he was only involved in legitimate activities as a journalist.
www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie /D/0397/D.0397.199003150071.html   (1206 words)

  
 E2K07 - Farzad Bazoft, Mossad spy ?
Later, in September 1989, Bazoft travelled to Iraq and used his fluency of Farsi to interject with Iraqi officials on the behalf of other reporters; for all this he remained a solitary figure and did not readily mix with the other foreign journalists.
Farzad Bazoft was arrested by Iraqi authorities near a supergun test site and in the company of a British nurse, Daphne Parrish.
March 1990 Farzad Bazoft was executed, by hanging, in the Abu Ghreib prison.
www.cvni.net /radio/e2k/e2k007/e2k07article.html   (1091 words)

  
 Farzad Bazoft info here at en.75of100d.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Farzad Bazoft (May 22, 1958 – March 15, 1990) was an Iran-born British journalist on incandescence as a freelance newscaster for The Observer.
The built detonation was heard as far as in Baghdad itself and despite Saddam Hussein's self-determining stroke to have the matter secret, rumours initiated to purview that the accident happened in a rocket factory's assembly line, killing dozens of Egyptian technicians labyrinthine in unenlightened medium-range missiles development.
Bazoft's differential triggered a widespread outrage of the West and contributed to isolation of Saddam's regime.
en.75of100d.info /Farzad_Bazoft   (542 words)

  
 Writer hanged by Iraq 'no spy' | Special reports | The Observer
Farzad Bazoft, the Observer journalist hanged on the orders of Saddam Hussein 13 years ago, was innocent, according to the man who arrested and interrogated him.
Bazoft was arrested on Askar's orders in September 1989, after photographing a military installation at which an explosion had occurred.
During his interrogation of Bazoft, in which the reporter was beaten, Askar said he discovered among his belongings 34 pictures of military installations on a roll of film.
observer.guardian.co.uk /freepress/story/0,,958540,00.html   (477 words)

  
 Alternative News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
In fact, Bazoft had been identified in a Mossad search that was triggered by his prying into another Mossad case in search of a story involving an ex-Mossad asset Dr Cyrus Hashemi who was eliminated by mossad in 1986.
Since Bazoft had already stumbled on too much information for his own good - or the Mossad's for that matter - he was the perfect candidate for this job of snooping in forbidden areas.
Bazoft made his way to the location as he was asked and as might be expected was arrested.
signs-of-the-times.org /signs/editorials/signs20060310_FalseNewsMoreDamagingThanNoNewsAtAll.php   (2988 words)

  
 [Farzad Bazoft] | [All the best Farzad Bazoft resources at ipod.topicsware.com]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Timeline: Iraq1990 15 March - Farzad Bazoft, an Iranian-born journalist with London's Observer newspaper, accused of spying on a military installation, is hanged in Baghdad.
BULL and BAZOFTOn March 15th 1990 Farzad Bazoft, who had been held in the Abu Gharib prison met briefly with the British Ambassador to Iraq.
Open Letter from George Bush to the American PeopleA man calling himself Michel Rubiyer saying he was working for the French newspaper “le figaro”, approached Farzad Bazoft, a thirty one year old reporter freelancing for the British newspaper the Observer.
ipod.topicsware.com /1990/Farzad_Bazoft   (901 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | My colleague was simply a journalist after a scoop
Farzad was an exotic figure at The Observer and had made many friends.
It was Farzad's tragedy that he arrived in Iraq on the same day that a major explosion was reported at a military complex south of the capital.
A plea on Farzad's behalf by Margaret Thatcher may have been counter-productive, for the first words of the Iraqi Information Minister when he announced the execution were: 'Thatcher wanted him alive.
www.observerunlimited.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,,958278,00.html   (868 words)

  
 My colleague was simply a journalist after a scoop | Iraq | Guardian Unlimited
Farzad was an exotic figure at The Observer and had made many friends.
It was Farzad's tragedy that he arrived in Iraq on the same day that a major explosion was reported at a military complex south of the capital.
We were not allowed to send a lawyer to his trial; the lawyer appointed for him in Baghdad had one day's notice and was not allowed to call witnesses, such as the other journalists on the trip, who had sworn statements on his behalf.
www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,,958278,00.html   (892 words)

  
 Definition of Farzad Bazoft
Farzad Bazoft was an 32-year-old Iran-born British journalist working as a freelance reporter for The Observer.
The heavy detonation was heard as far as in Baghdad itself and despite Saddam Hussein's personal order to keep the matter secret rumours began to spread that the accident happened in an rocket factory's assembly line killing dozens of Egyptian technicians involved in secret medium-range missiles development.
Bazoft's story triggered a general outrage of the West and contributed to international isolation of Saddam's regime.
www.wordiq.com /definition/Farzad_Bazoft   (472 words)

  
 BBC ON THIS DAY | 10 | 1990: Observer 'spy' sentenced to die
Mr Bazoft, who came to live in Britain from Iran in the early 1980s, had written a number of articles on the Middle East for The Observer newspaper.
Observer editor Donald Trelford said: "Farzad Bazoft is not a spy.
Mr Bazoft was hanged on 15 March 1990.
news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/10/newsid_2566000/2566485.stm   (528 words)

  
 Murder in Mesopotamic - Bazoft and Iraq   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The hanging of Farzad Bazoft was denounced by the British media as exemplifying the barbaric nature of the Iraqi state.
But while Bazoft was undoubtedly a victim of British impotence as well as Iraqi brutality, he was also a victim of something else altogether.
It is quite another to go in for this sort of thing in foreign parts, in countries where the state is and knows itself to be the necessary agent of national development and guarantor of social order and consequently the arbiter of life and death for every citizen.
members.aol.com /BevinSoc/IraqBazoft.html   (1548 words)

  
 Farzad Bazoft | Leaders | The Observer
Farzad Bazoft was a reporter who, on an invited trip to Iraq, went to a weapons plant in pursuit of a story of all his colleagues were chasing.
In any other country Farzad would be alive today to proclaim his innocence, to cross-examine witnesses through a lawyer of his own choice and then to appeal against any sentence.
If Farzad Bazoft's death has achieved anything, it has been to focus world-wide attention on the barbarities of Saddam Hussein, of which Farzad himself was just the latest victim.
observer.guardian.co.uk /leaders/story/0,,958172,00.html   (933 words)

  
 Murder in Mesopotamia - Internationalism or barbarism?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Bazoft affair highlighted the reality of Britain's place in the world in 1990, the impotence of her foreign policy and the extent to which ignorance of and contempt for foreign countries has become intrinsic to the worldview of the British media and political establishment, as Hugh Roberts explains.
The decision to hang Bazoft was a matter of raison d'etat, which is virtually the antithesis of barbarism in the proper sense of the word.
The execution of Farzad Bazoft was, among other things, an expression of Baghdad's contempt, not for civilised values, simply for the British state.
members.aol.com /BevinSoc/IraqBarbarism?.html   (2992 words)

  
 House of Commons Hansard Debates for 15 Mar 1990
Bazoft was a journalist who was in the process of investigating the apparent deaths of hundreds of Iraqi people in an explosion?
Bazoft was arrested last September and we went to see the deputy Prime Minister of Iraq about the case of Mr.
Bazoft telephoned the Metropolitan police on four occasions--once in 1987, twice in 1988 and once last year--as a member of the public offering information on subjects that were unconnected with Iraq.
www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm198990/cmhansrd/1990-03-15/Debate-1.html   (4427 words)

  
 My grief, by the father of reporter executed in Iraq | World | The Observer
Farzad Bazoft was a 31-year-old freelance journalist working for The Observer when he was put to death by the Iraqi regime on the grounds that he was a spy.
In fact, Bazoft was simply what he said he was: 'a journalist going after a scoop'.
Mr Bazoft displays a touching deference to his wife despite the conflict in their reactions to the ultimate tragedy of outliving a child.
observer.guardian.co.uk /world/story/0,,1945774,00.html   (927 words)

  
 House of Commons Hansard Debates for 12 Mar 1990
Bazoft and to secure a review of the sentence imposed on Mrs.
As soon as the outcome of the trial was known on Saturday, the Prime Minister wrote again to President Saddam Hussain asking for both sentences to be reduced on humanitarian grounds.
Bazoft were to be executed, that would inevitably have the most damaging impact on our bilateral relations, both diplomatically and in trade terms, and, in particular, in terms of financial credit?
www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm198990/cmhansrd/1990-03-12/Debate-1.html   (5785 words)

  
 Torture and Humiliation in Saddam's Jail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
In 1989 Farzad Bazoft, an Iranian-born freelance journalist, was working for The Observer.
When Mr Bazoft attempted to leave Iraq he was arrested by the secret police and put into solitary confinement for six weeks.
On March 10, 1990, Mr Bazoft was convicted of spying and sentenced to death.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=6341   (1256 words)

  
 BBC ON THIS DAY | 15 | 1990: Observer journalist executed in Iraq
Mr Bazoft - who came to live in Britain from Iran in the 1980s - was convicted by the Iraqis of spying four days ago.
He said it was important to keep dialogue alive with the Iraqis for the sake of the 2,000 Britons living in Iraq, including Mr Bazoft's alleged accomplice, British nurse Daphne Parish.
Prayers for Mr Bazoft were said today at the offices of The Observer in London.
news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/15/newsid_2543000/2543475.stm   (488 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Who killed Gerald Victor Bull?
Bazoft was said to be in Iraq researching a story, but before his execution he allegedly wrote a confession that stated in shaky handwriting that he had been employed to go to Iraq to gather information on Gerald Bull and a chemical expert named Steve Adams.
Bazoft's statement in part reads: "I was told there were two American scientists working at [a suspected chemical weapons] installation and I was asked to investigate them.
Bazoft's employer, the Observer, a British newspaper, said that he was not doing anything in Iraq other than working on a story.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29426   (2663 words)

  
 Never Mind Genocide
Late last week, I was involved in a televised debate in front of a large studio audience in Birmingham on the execution of the late Farzad Bazoft of the Observer in Baghdad.
The debate began with the Iraqi ambassador in Paris saying that he was surprised the British were at all bothered about the fate of a man who was not one of their citizens.
The anger caused by Farzad Bazoft's death is now subsiding, and the Foreign Office will, in a few months' time, quietly send back its ambassador to Baghdad to soothe the feelings of "the Pol Pot of the Arab world", reasoning that Saddam Hussein sits on the world's second-largest reservoir of oil after Saudi Arabia.
www.hteimourian.net /articles/older_newspaper_columns/b05_never_mind_genocide.htm   (735 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Mr Bazoft - who came to live in Britain from Iran in the 1980s - was convicted by the Iraqis of spying four days ago.
Mr Bazoft and Mrs Parish were arrested last September after visiting a top secret military installation south of Baghdad.
Prayers for Mr Bazoft were said today at the offices of The Observer in London.
www.neworiental.org /Default.aspx?TabID=1130&InfoID=111108&SettingModuleID=2120   (780 words)

  
 MIDEAST.BOU
Farzad Bazoft, an Iranian-born journalist working for The Observer, the London weekly, had been arrested on September 15, 1989, together with a British nurse, after investigating reports of a huge explosion at the al-Qaa Qaa munitions plant.
Held incommunicado for six months, Bazoft was apparently tortured to extract a televised confession of espionage on behalf of Israel and Britain -- an admission he subsequently retracted.
In March, it protested over the absence of due process in the Bazoft case, highlighting the strong suspicion that torture had been used against the journalist.
www.hrw.org /reports/1990/WR90/MIDEAST.BOU-03.htm   (5325 words)

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